Les Miserables ends a 16-year Broadway run after 6,680 performances. (Only the musical Cats has had a longer run.)

1980

Mount St. Helens erupts in southwest Washington State, killing 60 people and causing over $3 billion in damages.

1966

The Beatles finish recording the instrumental parts for Got To Get You Into My Life, at EMI Studios in London.

1947

Seabiscuit, the world-famous thoroughbred race horse, dies at the age of 14.
Uncle Woody sez: Go to any carnival today, and there on the midway at the horserace game, you'll find that 'Seabiscuit' lives on.